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⌈ Secret Post #2189 ⌋

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Re: Movies that you love that most people didn’t notice

[(Anonymous)]

Movies:

The Lotus Eaters You really need to have lived in a rural area of the Pac Northwest to really love the movie (and/or get the biting satire), IMO. Family moves to small Pacific Northwest island (I forget if it was Galiano they filmed on, or Saltspring) because the father (RH Thomson) has decided this is how they're going to spend his mid-life crisis, city-dwellers are thrown into hippie island culture of the late 70s, complete with all-grades one-room schoolhouse and fresh-faced teacher straight out of Uni, hilarity ensues.

Last Night The last night before the sun mysteriously goes nova, set in present-day Toronto. Much better than it sounds. Like Brazil with less 1984 and more Bolivian Army Ending. Sends up he best and worst of Toronto and living in the GTA.

I've Heard the Mermaids Singing Absolutely fierce satire of "the art scene" of the 1980s. Sheila McCarthy's video diary of her internship / PAing for an art gallery owner. Sends up the shallow liberal arts-educated subculture of the 1980s in Canada.

Route 66 Definitely an acquired taste (and I definitely have to be in the right mood not to chuck things at the TV as I'm watching it). Road trip movie before road trip movies were cool. With a coffin. Transporting a corpse.

Margaret's Museum Mining life and how hard it was, in Cape Breton, NS, during the 1950s. Very much based in real life (and on a non-fiction book). Starring Helena Bonham Carter as Margaret.

The Man From Earth I was recced this on a mailing list, but can't give much of a synopsis without giving any of it away. Bit of a gimmicky ending, and it might not work for everyone, but it absolutely will make you think. The characters are a bit pat, but it's really the content and not the window-dressing that makes the film what it is. Not a fan of the ending though.

Joe vs. the Volcano Tom Hanks in The Gods Must Be Crazy with the serial numbers filed off. Regardless, it's actually funny.

Jumanji If Narnia were a board game instead of a wardrobe, with Robin Williams. Hilarity, predictably, ensues.

Shows:

My So-Called Life
Earth 2
The Lone Gunmen
VR.5
The Murdoch Mysteries <- Note, this is NOT the current TV show I'm referring to, but the original 4-movie TV miniseries. I much preferred their depiction of Victorian Toronto than the current show's squeaky-clean look.
Twice in a Lifetime Go ahead, mock me for it, IDEC, LOL.

Books:
The Seven Per Cent Solution Sherlock Holmes pastiche by Nicholas Meyer. Since he also did the movie, the book is a fairly close adaptation, but still worth the read. Unadapted but in the same vein, The West End Horror and The Canary Trainer.

Foundation series by Asimov. I've been trying to get into rereading it, but just can't find/make the time. Must-read though.

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. WILL FREAK YOU OUT.

Manufacturing Victims by Tana Dineen. Mandatory reading if you want a well-rounded view on the pathologization of the psyhological culture of North America, IMO. Good forewarning book of what the DSMs, etc., would turn into, although no one was listening.

Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks. Much less well-known than his other books, probably because it's his memoir. Just as engaging as the rest of his books, IMO, but definitely lesser-known.